Khalifa Al-Khader, winner of the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press 2017, writes some scenes of fear in the details of his experience in ISIS prisons in the city of Al-Bab, his escape from prison, and his subsequent return to it of his own free will after ISIS was expelled from the city.
Khalifa does not tell us about ISIS from the outside. He lived in the belly of the ghoul, and went out to narrate some of what he saw, heard, and lived...
Rabbits emerge from jacket sleeves, a car fixes a shed instead of a pole, and medical cotton speaks and makes sounds; These are some of the daily observations mixed with audio-visual hallucinations, narrated by a young drug addict, through a group of separate, connected short stories that describe the image of a world in which wakefulness and sleep are mixed, and reality and imagination.
In these stories, everything moves slowly, and the world is seen through a blur; As for death, it seems like a joke, even the feelings become numb; So that one laughs when one should cry.
Without lacking a sense of humor and bitter banter, Dennis Johnson presents in this collection an honest testimony about the lives of young addicts in the United States of America, and despite all the laughter and smiles generated by the book’s funny characters with their jokes and behavior, perhaps the reader will wonder at the end: Why does he feel this way? All sadness? It is a book written in the mouth of addicts, not about them, and describes their alienation and their connection with the world that is gradually fading.
منطقة الغموض.. نبذة: مجموعة قصصية بالغة الغرابة، تثير لديك تساؤلات لاتنتهي ، وستعرف من خلالها بأن الحياة ليست مكاناً أمنا كما يتصور البعض ، وستزور منطقة قلما يدخلها أحد ، ويخشى الجميع عبور بوابتها ؛ لانها منطقة الغموض
The electricity was on
The book talks about Fareej Al Sharq, which is the neighborhood in which I lived during my childhood, and the people of the East and their kindness, solidarity, and cooperation.
It is a narration of the memories, adventures, and fantasies that I lived with the girls of Al Freej
The book focuses on the era of the seventies and eighties from my perspective and life in this period, and it is necessary to generalize it to everyone who lived that era.
There are funny situations, there are sad situations, and there are surprising ones.
There are things that people cannot describe.
There are words that we cannot accept, trivial things that make the only hope of our heart go away, that make our hopes disappointed and thrown away without fulfillment, those wishes that took most of our time to achieve. A few words from them changed the course of our lives, they turned that beautiful dream into a hideous nightmare. That paradise that we imagined was nothing but hell. We were living those dreams with great hope, but we were very disappointed. We were tired and despaired of them, but we will not give up, and we will not let their words and actions affect our dreams. The desires that the heart desires force us to bear them, force us to resist them. We will not break easily, except when our dreams are achieved. We will break because we achieved the desire of our heart after long patience. We will break. We will gather together again. We will be stronger than we were before. Be sure that you can.
The missing painting:
Noise that no one can hear except me, lights, people, and places that no one else knows, and others do not even believe. When I Was Alone is a collection of stories whose events will amaze you, and whose details will terrify you. It happened to some and it may happen to others, with a slight difference in the events.
Advice: If you read the book and feel afraid, do not sit alone, and if you think that you will not feel fear, do not sit alone either!
A collection of short stories that includes 6 diverse stories that reflect the philosophy of life, the myth of the desert, and the icon of existence, with the fragrant scent of Emirati nature and the local environment. Most of the events of the stories take place within the Emirati environment. During the short story collection “Fear on Their Necks,” Al Mansouri draws inspiration from innate ideas and shortened meanings.
The collection included the following titles: “One Last Look,” “A Smile in the Wind,” “The Self-Trial of the Brotherhood,” “Tal Zakher,” and “Fear.”
On their necks, and an incoming one on the Kassir.
